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Baseball Fans are Drawn
To Fairbanks and Omaha

On Tuesday, for the 100th time, Fairbanks, Alaska, held its annual baseball game at midnight on the longest day of the year, in natural light.

It started as a bar bet in 1906. "Who'd win a baseball game played in the middle of the night under the Midnight Sun? Fairbanks' California Bar or the Eagle's Club?" Van Williams writes in the Anchorage Daily News, in a review of the Midnight Sun Game's history. "So they organized a game that started at 11 p.m. and ended at 12:30, with the California Bar 'Drinks'...